Article title: Internalized Messages: The Role of Sexual Violence Normalization on Meaning-Making after Campus Sexual Violence
Authors: Laura Sinko, Michelle Munro-Kramer, Terri Conley and Denise Saint Arnault
Journal: Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2020.1796872
When the above article was first published online, sentences 2-4 of the fourth paragraph of The Normalization of Violence Against Women section (beginning “The term rape myth” and ending “‘often falsely reported’”) were incorrect and they have now been amended as the following:
Rape myths refer to stereotypical beliefs about situational, survivor, and offender characteristics that distinguish sexual assault from consensual sex (Bannon et al., 2013). Rape myths are one of the ways in which sexual violence has been justified throughout history, and can be used to place blame on the survivor, rather than the offender (Edwards et al., 2011; Bannon et al., 2013). Some examples of rape myths found both in social discord and the media include comments like the survivor is “lying,” that the survivor “wanted it,” or that the survivor “asked for it” (Franiuk et al., 2008). Rape myths can also trivialize the offender’s actions or culpability through comments like the offender “didn’t mean to” or that they are “not the type of [person]” who would perpetrate violence (Franiuk et al., 2008).